Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Here's a quick shout-out and thank-you to Canada's gift to the financially illiterate, Gail Vaz-Oxlade.

Gail is famous nationwide as the host of Til Debt Do Us Part on Slice. The show also airs on AmericanLife TV Network in the USA and on Zone Reality in the UK. She takes couples whose relationships are being undermined by financial difficulties and teaches them how to turn their lives around. Wikipedia has a thorough episode guide. Well, not really. They name and number the episodes. Big whoop.

k@w: I dig TDDUP more than Maxed Out ... I like 'em both ... but Gail's show feels like the original, and Maxed Out the copy. Production values on TDDUP are better, I think she's a better, more knowledgable host ... and Maxed Out feels like a hokey setup much of the time. The message is good in both, and I look forward to both, but I'd have to pick Gail's show over Maxed Out.

jason: exactly. I don't think she has much patience for people who don't bother to read. Ask her something obvious, and you may get told to "look it up, dummy!"

Wow! I just found this and I'm very, very flattered. Thanks for the whelming vote of confidence. And you're right. I can't abide dopes who won't lift a finger to help themselves. I get hundreds of questions every week that ask exactly the same thing. It is, of course, a sign of how much trouble we are in. But people have to decide to take control of their own lives and do some of the hard work to get themselves straightened out. For those who are trying, I have all the time in the world. g

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